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Strategic cargo theft is a rapidly growing concern

Freight Waves

The thieves then redirect the cargo to alternate locations, often cross-docks, where they begin laundering the freight by changing documentation and descriptions as it moves through multiple facilities. The human on the other end of the line says, ‘what’s your favorite barbecue place in Memphis?’ The scammer couldn’t answer.

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Trucking Industry Crime Surge: 50 High-Stakes Incidents

Freight Waves

Colorado’s growing logistics activity and lack of truck stop monitoring enabled this felony theft, likely an inside job exploiting shipment data. Context: Glendale’s proximity to Los Angeles, a logistics hub, attracts crime, with strategic theft up 430% in 2024. Context: Atlanta’s logistics hub status makes it a theft target.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Operations began in 1973 with 14 aircraft, and a package hub in Memphis.

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The Empty Container Marketplace with Sean Bardon

The Logistics of Logistics

Sean is a bilingual start-up veteran who’s worked in China with the Beijing Silicon Valley Group, leading the logistical planning of multiple joint ventures. They can also access additional empty equipment or offer up their surplus equipment in a documented and secure place, the empty container marketplace.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 25-29, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. Announces the Acquisition of ADS Logistics. FedEx Ground loses new legal round with labor (Logistics Management). If successful, the program will expand next to Indianapolis, IN; Edison, NJ; and Memphis, TN.”. SAP Patent Application for Mobile Device Is Published (WSJ – sub.

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FedEx robot improves parcel sorting at Cologne airport facility

Freight Waves

The robot is the first of its kind in FedEx’s European network and highlights the company’s focus on using technology to automate logistics functions, the company said Friday in a news release. The machine primarily sorts documents and smaller parcels up to 8.8 FedEx Corp. The robotic arm, manufactured by Hellebrekers B.V.,

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FedEx to celebrate Fred Smith’s life at Memphis event

Freight Waves

11 at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee, to honor founder Fred Smith, who passed away on June 21. Smith built the company from scratch in 1973 into an iconic American brand with annual revenue last year of $88 billion, setting the standard for the modern parcel logistics industry. FedEx will hold a public memorial on Aug.

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